Improved testing tools that address the root causes of software errors are starting to come to the fore as development teams work in increasingly complex service-oriented architecture (SOA) environments such as Microsoft's .NET and Windows Communication Foundation (WCF).

The tool is built with an automated capability to create intelligent stubs. The intelligent stubs emulate the behaviour of a running system, allowing the developer to test services in the context of an application's actual behaviour and not on the live running system.

Parasoft's co-founder and chief executive, Adam Kolawa, argued that a peer code review should form part of the automated process, even for geographically distributed development teams. "As systems evolve and become more complex, developers are more wary about making changes to code. If developers want their code to stand the test of time, development teams need it to be reviewed not only automatically, but also with the finest analysis instrument of all — the human brain," he said.

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